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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But I think I know why everyone on this particular board comes across as defensive and embittered.

We are all, somewhat, expected to justify not moving to the suburbs "for the good of our children," (or, as I like to think of it, move to the suburbs so our children can huff glue in a garage and drive drunk to prom and be abysmally bored), all the damn time. To everyone.

The myth of the suburban school experience is really strong. I never went to a suburban school myself (and I'm sure some immensely clever poster will chime in here about how they can tell that)--but I have to wonder. What, exactly, besides giant sports fields and parking lots, do these mythical burb schools have?
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You'll aren't from here, are you?

-- MoCo "W" grad, with DCPS Ward 3 IB kids.  [/quote]

Some DC residents need to get out more.  Not all of the suburban schools John Hughes movies.[/quote]

Very true. What is a "W" grad. She says it like it means something. Should we be impressed your parents moved into a neighborhood that they called the school that? [/quote]

Seriously ... the response shows the issue here.  Saying exactly the opposite.  The original post was one of the most naive in DCUM history.  Why is the DC school system in the state it's in now?  As one example, back in the 1960s, Hardy was a fully integrated, 1/2 Black, 1/2 White school.  In the 70s, 80s, 90s, early-mid-00s, it was lower than 10% White. Vast majority of higher SES families (all races) sent kids to private or moved to the burbs - with the exception of JKLMs for periods of that time - and about 25% of Deal and Wilson (and now those numbers have flipped!)  Now, there's change across schools that had been under resourced for decades and the emergence of charters and competition and a couple decades of more affluent families staying in the city and a set of them sending their kids on through public school. [/quote]

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